Reply #41: You can keep posting that repeatedly

[ThomCat]

but what does that one decisions, started by WORKERS, really mean when compared to

• the millions of jobs lost for workers
  
• the overall loss of benefits at existing jobs for workers
  
• the overall loss of job security at existing jobs for workers
  
• the overall loss of income, wage levels, and the stagnation of raises for workers
  
• the vast loss of small family farms to bankruptcy and the loss of farming diversity, leading to consolidation of big-agribusiness mega-farms, and mono-culture farming
  
• the millions of people displaced by poverty who become undocumented workers and illegal immigrants
  
• etc.
  

These are the effects of free trade agreements. These are what Obama is giving us. One decision to support tire workers is hardly meaningful compared to all of that.

That would be like someone who spreads typhoid, but they stop and put a bandage on a kid's scraped knee. So you keep pointing to the bandage over and over again to prove he cares about people. The typhoid is a bit more relevant. In this case, the vast, overriding effects of free trade are far more relevant than one trade case in the other direction.